Pakistani refugees traveled by road near Swabi, Pakistan, Wednesday. Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis fled their homes due to fighting between the Pakistan army and Taliban forces in the Northwest Frontier Province.(Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth prepared to sign her name after opening the new south wing of Altnagelvin area hospital, in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, Wednesday. The Queen is on a three-day visit to Northern Ireland.(Cathal McNaughton/Reuters)

Villagers, wearing traditional turbans, attended a wedding in Ore Village near Abu Road in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan Wednesday. Rajashtan will go to polls on Thursday during the fourth phase of the India’s general elections.(Arko Datta/Reuters)

A firefighter sprayed water on a house burning during the Jesusita fire in Santa Barbara, Calif., Wednesday. A wildfire destroyed some 20 homes in the rugged central California foothills, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate and injuring at least three firefighters.(Gene Blevins/Reuters)

Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally announced that Ford will invest $550 million to convert its old Michigan Truck Plant into a facility that will build small compact modern cars, Wednesday, at Wayne Assembly in Wayne, Mich.(Carlos Osorio/Associated Press)

Rope access technician Paul Talbot made his away along a structure inside the tropical biodome of the Eden Project towards a balsa tree that needed pruning Thursday in Falmouth, England. The tree has outgrown the 50-meter high biodome, which houses the largest rain forest in captivity in the world’s largest greenhouse, and was in danger of growing through the roof.(Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

A street child slept under a bridge to take shelter from the rain in Manila Thursday. The Philippines is readying evacuation centers and alerted residents for possible flash floods and landslides as Typhoon Chan-Hom heads for the main northern Luzon island.(Romeo Ranoco/Reuters)

Women activists of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal struggled with police during a protest against the president in Kathmandu, Nepal, Thursday.(Prakash Mathema/AFP/Getty Images)

The band of the Royal Marines were lowered below deck on a platform after playing on the the HMS Illustrious aircraft carrier on the River Thames in east London Thursday. A fly-by and ceremony took place on board to mark the centenary of aviation in the British Royal Navy.(Toby Melville/Reuters)

Georgian opposition protesters clashed with riot police outside the Interior Ministry late Wednesday. Police armed with truncheons clashed with protesters in the first major outbreak of violence in a month of demonstrations against President Mikhail Saakashvili. Dozens were injured.(Nodar Tskhvirashvili/Associated Press)

U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates flew in a Blackhawk helicopter over Kandahar, Afghanistan, Thursday.(Jason Reed/Reuters)

A child played on a swing in the village of Mazgit, near Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, Wednesday.(Hazir Reka/Reuters)

Zimbabwean farmer Chipo Chisya waited with her baby to sell her tobacco on the first day of the selling season in Harare, Zimbabwe, Thursday.(Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/Associated Press)

Labor union workers of Ssangyong Motor took part in a candlelight rally to protest the company’s layoff plan at the main plant of the auto maker in Pyeongtaek, south of Seoul, South Korea, Thursday.(Jo Yong-Hak/Reuters)